Comment 19 for bug 13199

uhm... I think that Xarchiver does not support drag n' drop at all

It seems that I've found an argument in defense of File-Roller...
I've tried to drag and drop things from Ark (the KDE equivalent of File-Roller) to Konqueror and I get the same behavior: I have to wait with the button pressed until the file is uncompressed in the temporary directory and then the URI is passed to the drop target (I've tried with the vmware player Ubuntu image... a big file of 543M compressed and several gigs when uncompressed).

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong (I just installed KDE to test this... so I'm not a K-expert).

(small note: I've also noticed that it is not possible to drag things from Ark to Nautilus, but it is possible to drag from File-Roller to Konqueror.)

I think that the solution to this problem (without hacking with dnd protocol or nautilus) is to implement a gnome-vfs extension as it's proposed in gnome-bug page for this bug (so that it is possible to pass a list of pipelined zip/tar/... uri's to the drop target)

Note: I've tried with KDE on Breezy